July 1 - lost to San Diego Padres at home 9 to 3
July 2 - lost to San Diego Padres at home 6 to 2
July 8 - lost to Los Angeles Dodgers at home 7 to 1
July 13 - lost at Montreal Expos 6 to 0
July 15 - lost at Montreal Expos 8 to 0
July 16 - lost at Montreal Expos 6 to 1
July 21 - lost at Philadelphia Phillies 6 to 1
July 22 - lost at Philadelphia Phillies 8 to 2
July 23 - lost at Philadelphia Phillies 13 to 2
Jose Cruz must have married well, because Jose Cruz Jr. is totally identifiable as the son of Jose Cruz but way, way prettier.
ReplyDeletealso, I totally love baseball cards. I am not a baseball card speculator or anything but I am a baseball card aesthete and when I remember to I go to the sports card show they hold on the last Saturday of every month at the bingo hall at the forum and I invariably come away with at least one breathtaking objet d'art like a Johnny Bench card where he's doing something cool or like a really old Dick Groat and I basically get them with pocket change (which is more substantial in Canada than some other places but still). I really wanted a Bob Uecker one time but it was somewhere around ten dollars and I have a hard time going above like three.
ReplyDeleteI still have a box with like 2000 from my youth. We used to have parties where we used magazines and altered them in hilarious fashion. This was like 15 yrs ago pre-photoshop era. I know there's a rookie Cal Ripken one in there somewhere, but I don't care about shit like that. I just like the cool ones. I actually was laying in bed going to sleep last night thinking about great years of wacky players in wacky uniforms for teams to do this with. I am not entirely proud of that but it is true.
ReplyDeleteThat sounds way more fun than photoshop. Also yeah I have or have had a bunch of kind of conventionally collectible cards from a long time ago when I thought that would be cool (and a Gretzky rookie IS actually pretty cool, there's no other way to look at the issue) but those days are past me and now I want a picture of Bobby Bonilla or somebody looking incredibly bored during batting practice or like Chris Sabo pulling down a mascot's pants (still looking on that last one but it or something like it HAS to exist).
ReplyDeleteyeah, now I guess my favorite one would be the U.L. Washington toothpick one. I also had a rookie Steve Howe which I always kept for lulz, back before "lulz" existed
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